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I have abandoned my house.
I have forsaken my heritage.
I have given the one I love dearly into the hands of her enemies.
My heritage has become like a lion in the forest to me.
She roars at me, so I hate her.
For me my heritage has become like a howling hyena,
    surrounded by scavenging birds of prey.[a]
Go and gather all the wild animals.
Bring them to devour her.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 12:9 Or like a speckled bird of prey, surrounded by other scavenging birds. The Hebrew of the verse is difficult.